this evening (tuesday 14th), 10.00-11.30pm, on bbc 4 tv
praying for armageddon (in the storyville series) includes …
“Completed before the current crisis in Israel and Gaza, it also unveils how politicians driven by faith embrace the State of Israel, as the key to their prophetic vision for the end of days.”
(more…)this afternoon (thursday 25th), 2.24-2.28pm, 2.51-2.59pm, 4.31pm, and 5.23-5.29pm, on bbc world service radio
newshour (presented by paul henley) and bbc os (presented by luke jones) include …
“The White House, and seventeen other governments, have called for Hamas to release all hostages in Gaza, to help secure a ceasefire.”
“The father of a US-Canadian aid worker killed in Gaza tells us the message he’d like today’s memorial service to send to the world.”
“The parents of one of the Israeli hostages in Gaza, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, have urged the 23 year old to ‘stay strong’ and ‘survive’, in reaction to a proof-of-life video released by Hamas.”
including contributions from …
• bbc reporter wyre davies
• zak mishriki, zak’s antiquities, east jerusalem
• ofer moskowitz, kibbutz misgav am, lebanese border
• crowdfunder john medeved, ourcrowd
• economist elise brezis
• samir hazboun, chair, bethlehem chamber of commerce
• john flickinger, father of world central kitchen victim jacob flickinger 33
(see also https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-68893885)
(more…)this morning (thursday 18th), 5.30am, 6.06-6.18am, 7.06-7.12am, 7.15-7.17am, and 7.40-7.45am, on bbc world service radio
newsday (presented by devina gupta and rob young) leads with …
“Qatar says it’s reassessing its role as a mediator between Israel and Hamas.”
“An Israeli woman who was taken hostage by Hamas in October has been telling the BBC about the horrifying conditions she was subjected to in Gaza.
“Another obstacle to progress in any negotiations has been continued Israeli settlement expansion. We look at what’s happening in East Jerusalem.”
including contributions from …
• analyst david makovsky
• activist sari kronish, bimkom
• bbc reporter jessica parker
• activist susanne mikhail
(more…)this afternoon (tuesday 9th), 2.36-2.44pm, 4.21-4.29pm, 4.57-4.59pm, and 5.25-5.29pm, on bbc world service radio
newshour (presented by tim franks) and bbc os (presented by james reynolds) include …
“Israel says that more than 400 aid trucks were allowed in on Monday.
We hear again from people in Gaza who have returned to the city of Khan Younis, after the Israeli withdrawal.”
including contributions from …
• palestine ocha head andrea de domenico
• journalist akram al-satarri, khan younis
• bbc reporter sebastian usher
• hatim salman, khan younis
(see also https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-68764952)
(more…)yesterday evening (friday 29th), 5.03-5.04pm, 5.33-5.43pm, and 6.11-6.15pm, on bbc radio 4
pm (presented by paddy oconnell) and six o’clock news include …
“Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has agreed to send a team to a new round of ceasefire talks taking place in Doha and Cairo.
He was speaking hours after separate Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon and Syria killed two Hezbollah leaders.”
including contributions from …
• bbc reporter jeremy bowen
• soraya ali, save the children
• bbc reporter david bamford
• activist rafi ghattas
• bbc reporter charlotte simpson
(more…)this morning (friday 29th), 6.03-6.04am, 6.09am, 6.33-6.36am, 7.03-7.04am, 7.13-7.20am, 8.03-8.05am, and 8.10-8.23am, on bbc radio 4
today (presented by mishal husain and martha kearney) includes …
“As Good Friday services take place on this day of remembrance for the suffering of Christ as he was put to death through torture, there will also be prayers for those struggling and suffering today, perhaps especially in the Holy Land: bereaved Palestinians and Israelis, the families of hostages, those living amid war in Gaza, and under occupation in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. ”
including contributions from …
• bbc reporter yolande knell
• international prosecutor geoffrey nice kc
• bbc reporter jeremy bowen
• canon richard sewell, dean, st george’s, jerusalem
(more…)this afternoon (wednesday 20th), 2.15-2.18pm and 5.53-5.59pm, on bbc world service radio
newshour (presented by nuala mcgovern) and bbc os (presented by luke jones) include …
“Weeks of negotiations have failed to produce a breakthrough.”
including contributions from …
• bbc reporter tom bateman
• bbc reporter lindsay brown
• mohammed qatah, gaza
• drordina riyadh, gaza
(more…)this afternoon (tuesday 19th), 2.06-2.18pm, 4.06-4.19pm (repeated 5.40pm), 4.32-4.45pm, 5.07-5.16pm, 5.32-5.40pm, and 5.54-5.58pm, on bbc world service radio
newshour (presented by nuala mcgovern) and bbc os (presented by anna foster) lead with …
“Israeli negotiators hold talks in Qatar.
Pressure increases for a pause to allow aid into Gaza and the safe evacuation of hostages.
We’ll hear from residents in Jerusalem Anna has spoken to with about their thoughts on Ramadan this year.”
including contributions from …
• majed al-ansari, qatari foreign ministry
• bbc gaza reporter rushdi abualouf
• journalist lazar berman
• mustafa, east jerusalem
“You’ve really got a sense there of how difficult it is for him, and for many Palestinians at the moment, when they watch what’s happening in Gaza.”
• sam rose, unrwa
• analyst dahlia scheindlin
• yasser, truck driver
• abu haleem kamel, truck driver
• bbc reporter mark lowen
• activist chris lockyear
(see also https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-68578735)
(more…)yesterday evening (monday 18th), 7.16-7.25pm, on bbc radio 4
front row (presented by samira ahmed) concludes with …
“• Daniel Libeskind, the architect best known for the Jewish Museum in Berlin and the World Trade Centre masterplan in New York, talks about designing a building to house Einstein’s archive in Jerusalem.”
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